Leg Day

I can't remember EVER being this sore before I left the gym! I knew it was going to hurt, but I thought all the pain would be for the next 3-4 days. Seriously, for the first few weeks, I will actually be sore from doing lunges for at least 2 days after each workout. Even worse, the first two workouts it will be 3-4 days of pain. I am so not looking forward to that. In fact, I was dragging my tail end around all morning dreading the pain I will be in tomorrow!
On the good side, my workout is done, The Boy is always happy when I pick him up from the gym daycare, and in a few weeks... I will be in LOVE with leg day. There is just something about being able to throw around heavy weights that gets me going. Oh, and I did really enjoy the 45 minutes of me time. Again, why did it take me so long to do this???

Now, into a body issue... my stretch marks. I will write about them a LOT. I am so mad about them. I did everything I knew to keep them at bay, but there they were, at month 7. I have the worst ones I have personally seen, by a mile. I have seen worse in pictures, but that ain't helpin' me!
SO, anyway. I was thinking about having The Boy and that he has added so much to my life and how I want a houseful of children. Then thought about how my body was 'ruined' by having children, but how that was an unfair statement. In reality, aside from the aforementioned stretch marks (my belly was never a strong point for me anyway) and the saggyness in another area... My shape is BETTER than before I had him! My legs are leaner, I have actual hips (instead of the saddle bags for hips I had before), even my waist is oddly more defined. Oh, and my arms, WOW... I can lift and lift and lift and lift and not get the definition in those shoulders that wagging around a 20lb toddler has given me. I was holding a 15 lb weight and had to take a double take at the delts I saw popping out of my arm. Where did those come from? I can never get those.
So, all this to say, having The Boy actually made my body better... I just have to let got of the stomach thing. Like I said before, it was never my strong feature anyway! Now I have the potential of even better legs than I had before... and I had some nice gams before... I cannot wait to see the results of those painful lunges. Bring it on!